Senior Engineering Manager – Software – INTeACT

New Malden

Naval Ships

Engineering

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Job Description

Job title: Senior Engineering Manager – Software – INTeACT

Location: New Malden, Broad Oak – Portsmouth, Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £ 80,000 (depending on skills and experience) 

 

What you’ll be doing:

  • Engineering Management of the new INTeACT software development
  • Ensuring that all of the engineering processes, people and tools are in place and working efficiently throughout the product lifecycle as required to successfully deliver the new INTeACT software
  • Support the establishment of suitable engineering processes, people and tools required to ensure efficient execution of the new INTeACT software engineering programme and to successfully achieve quality engineering outputs and deliverables
  • Ensure delivery of the engineering effort to overall budget and schedule
  • Leading and coordinating the estimation of new INTeACT software engineering activities and development and support costs
  • Managing the development & execution of team resource plans including forward load forecasting & assignment of engineers

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Prior experience of managing the people and activities within a medium/large delivery focused software team
  • An understanding of DevSecOps and Agile development methodology
  • An understanding of the role of a software factory and ability to  articulate the requirements for one that are relevant to supporting the successful execution of a large software project
  • An understanding of what is required to deliver complex software programmes in a similar domain to the Defence Industry
  • An understanding of Software Pipelines including Continuous Software Integration

Desirable:

  • Delivered large software projects to a similar size and scale  
  • Managed a large team of software developers
  • Combat Systems Experience

Degree qualified or equivalent experience, likely to be in a technology, engineering, science or IT related discipline.Some disciplines may require a Masters level education. Chartered Engineer, or other relevant, equivalent professional registration. Member of appropriate professional institution, ideally working towards Fellow

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Naval Ships Combat Systems Product Realisation team:

The BAE Systems Naval Ships Combat Systems Product Realisation team use cutting edge technologies to design, develop, integrate and support naval combat system products that enable navies to protect nations. Our core product, the Combat Management System, is the ‘brains’ of the ship, allowing crews to understand the tactical situation and to rapidly respond to potentially life-threatening situations.

This role will help to ensure that naval crews around the world can continue to receive and utilise the most modern capabilities possible in a challenging and ever-changing environment. We offer significant opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop with us.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 26th January 2025. Interviews for this position will take place W/C 3rd February.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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